and if we're going into a fiscal cliff ceiling, the contraction of government policy, and then on top of that we have a debt ceiling crisis, we're going to leash an economic hell that will be like lehman in 2008. >> my reaction, the sense of this, it is why i'm relaxed going off the curb because i never believed we would hit the month and month and a half. and now if i'm wrong, you and i are both staying up nights. but my sense is that all capitol hill needs is being off the cliff for a day or two. and those people that are preventing boehner from getting something done now will all sit in the right corner and allow boehner to put together the right vote package to get something done in the first week that we're off the curb. >> i think you're probably right. and i think the market thinks you're right. that is why you're not seeing huge panic. but the only thing that makes me worry, is boehner's recent travails, if he gets weaker, but i don't expect that to be bad. it should not be horrible. >> ezra, i think you should sleep at least the first three days, off the cliff, and then we ca